One of the Boko Haram leaders have admitted to marrying two out of the over 200 girls kidnapped from Chibok in Borno state.
The
Boko Haram leader, Hassan Ali, who was reportedly arrested by the local
vigilante in Maiduguri three weeks ago, confessed that he got “married”
to two of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls in Sambisa forest.
According to reports from Leadership, Hassan Ali who is a native of
Kwapchi-Kilakise village who was said to have killed his biological
father, Mallam Hassan Arigizhe, and his uncle, Zakariya Ali, was also
said to have sanctioned the killing of his younger sister whom he
forcefully took to Sambisa when she refused to accede to the sexual
demands of one of the Amirs (leaders) in Sambisa, an act that elevated
him to the position of Amir too.
According to the officials of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Borno
State, Hassan was arrested by the Civilian-JTF and members of the VGN
when he was spotted in a car trying to leave Maiduguri for Benisheik,
along the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway.
A VGN official said: “It was
on the first day that we mobilised to Pilgrims Camp when we wanted to
be given permission to go to Sambisa in search for the missing girls.
When he was asked to identify himself, he pretended to be a dumb person.
But those that knew him said he was lying and they started to beat him
up; it was when he sensed death that he later confessed that he was a
member of Boko Haram, and that he was sent to come to Maiduguri to buy
yams worth N200, 000. He said he had finished his transaction and the
truck had since left for Sambisa.
“When we asked him about the abducted girls, he said they were all
fine, that none of them was being hurt or molested; he said as a matter
of fact he was betrothed to two of them as wives due to his position as
Amir. He said they eat good food there – mostly canned foods and canned
drinks; they eat spaghetti, rice, smoked fish and yam.
“I was the
one that personally interviewed him when he was arrested near Njimtilo
at the outskirts of Maiduguri, towards Damaturu. I even took some
jotting of his statement before we later left him with the Sector-6
officials of the Civilian-JTF. I did not take his photograph but some of
our local hunters who had camera phones did. Unfortunately, all of them
had gone back to their various localities after the state government
had disbanded us last week.”
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